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My motor requires 360 CCA, the 50# trolling motor I want requires 47 amps
(max draw). I doubt I would ever use the trolling motor more than 2 hours at a time You'd do well to plan 300 amps of battery for your trolling motor alone. Sounds like a lot, but there's why: 2 hours at 47 amps = round to 100 ah. It's best not to discharge a l/a battery below 50% of its rated capacity, so 100 X 2 = 200. Then you have to make an allowance for the "sweet spot" in the recharge curve. If you're discharged to 50%, the battery will recover to 80% fairly quickly but the remaining 20% of charge to full takes considerably longer. Unless you will always have ample recharge capability between uses, you can only "count" on using 30% of the battery's capacity....(that portion between the 50% floor you want to avoid discharging below and the 80% charge state that you can recover fairly quickly. The "belt and suspenders" approach is to take your amp hour requirement (about 100) and multiply it by three. 3 X 30% = 90%, probably close enough for jazz. |
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